Cheng Lu, President & CEO of TuSimple

Cheng Lu is the President & CEO of TuSimple, a global self-driving technology company focused on developing the first SAE L4 fully autonomous truck solution to reshape the $4 trillion-dollar global freight industry. Founded in 2015, TuSimple’s mission is to increase truck safety, lower transportation costs, and reduce carbon emissions.

Prior to TuSimple, he co-founded and was a Partner of KCA Capital Partners, a Pan-Asia growth equity investment fund. Previously, he was an investor with HOPU Investments and CITIC Capital in Beijing and Cerberus Capital Management in New York. He started his career as an investment banking analyst with Citigroup in New York. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School and B.S. in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Virginia.